US "Pauses Issuance Of Worker Visas For Truckers" To Address Illegal Alien CDL Crisis

 U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is taking decisive action to address the non-domiciled commercial driver's license (CDL) crisis, which has transformed America's highways into both a public safety nightmare and a national security threat. Countless Americans have lost their lives this year at the hands of non-English-speaking migrants/illegal aliens operating 80,000-pound big rigs - yet they should never have been on the road, but were allowed to because rogue sanctuary states handed out CDLs like candy. Under the Biden-Harris regime, tens of thousands of these migrants flooded into the trucking industry, many unable to read road signs in English. 

"Effective immediately we are pausing all issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers," Rubio stated on X on Thursday evening.

He added: "The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on U.S. roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers."

Effective immediately we are pausing all issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers.

The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on U.S. roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers.

— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) August 21, 2025

Rubio's action at State comes days after U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy addressed the horrific crash in Florida involving an illegal alien operating a big rig, who made an illegal U-turn, killing three Americans. 

Duffy blasted "non-enforcement and radical immigration policies" for turning the trucking industry into a "lawless frontier," allowing unqualified foreign drivers to operate massive 40-ton rigs.

This cannot happen again.

.@FMCSA is launching an investigation into both the driver and White Hawk Carrier.

Here’s what we know:

1. Washington State improperly issued the driver a full-term CDL. Asylum seekers or illegal aliens are NOT allowed to receive this!

2. New Mexico… pic.twitter.com/Qlf8T68IJz

— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) August 19, 2025

Responding to Rubio's action is American Truckers United's (ATU) Shannon Everett, whose trucking advocacy group has been one of the main forces driving urgency in alerting the Trump administration to the non-domiciled CDL crisis killing innocent Americans, in some cases, wiping out entire families. 

"At American Truckers United, we are forever grateful for the swift and decisive action taken by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who truly puts Americans first. We thank him for this bold step in pausing all work visas for commercial truck drivers, which we believe is the first occupation-specific visa restriction ever implemented by a Secretary of State to protect American workers," Everett told ZeroHedge. 

He continued, "Secretary Rubio has shut off the supply lines. Now it will be up to Secretary Duffy to clean house!" 

ZeroHedge began covering the migrant CDL crisis in March, together with ATU, warning about the deadly consequences of open-border chaos.

Here's the reporting:

• Advocacy Group Calls For U.S. Probe On Non-English Speaking Migrant Truck Drivers After Deadly Austin Crash

• Biden Handed Out CDLs Like Candy... Now U.S. Highways Are A Public Safety & National Security Nightmare

• Rolling Risk: Unvetted Migrants Behind The Wheel Of Big Rigs Threaten U.S. Safety & Security

• From North America To Australia, Migrant Truckers Are Fueling A Highway Safety Crisis

• English Trucking Rule Takes Effect, Federal Probe Begins Of Sanctuary State Migrant CDL Pipeline

• Letter Urges Transportation Sec. Duffy To Ban Foreign CDLs Amid Series Of Highway Crashes

• Highway Mayhem: Trucker From Sanctuary State Illinois Arrested After Baltimore Shooting Spree

• Walmart, Amazon Truck Depots Display Multilingual Signs, Raising Alarms Over Migrant Drivers With No English

• Watch: American Truckers United Issues Dire Warning On 'Unsafe' Highways Amid Flood Of Migrant Drivers, Crashes

• Florida Highway Horror: Migrant Truck Driver Leaves 3 Americans Dead Amid CDL Crisis

• Illegal Alien Behind Fatal Florida Big Rig Crash; Sec. Duffy Signals Major Action On CDL Crisis

• "This Cannot Happen Again": Sec. Duffy Readies Major Action Against Rogue States Amid Migrant CDL Crisis

Everett told us that ATU began working with the State Department in July to address the crisis and restore safety to America's highways. Within a month, Rubio took decisive action, and now all eyes are on Duffy to see whether the DoT takes action against this public safety crisis and national security threat spurred by the Biden-Harris regime. 

Accountability is coming. Rogue sanctuary states run by globalist Democrats have been put on notice: they will be held responsible for the death and destruction on U.S. highways. Also on notice are the globalist-controlled mega-corporations and major trucking firms that recklessly hired non-English-speaking CDL holders.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/us-pauses-issuance-worker-visas-truckers-address-illegal-alien-cdl-crisis-killing

Vanda seeks FDA commissioner review of hetlioz generic approvals

 Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:VNDA), a $267 million market cap pharmaceutical company with impressive gross profit margins of 94.4%, has requested that FDA Commissioner Martin Makary review a recent decision upholding the approval of two generic versions of its drug Hetlioz, according to a company press release issued Thursday.

The pharmaceutical company is challenging a July 2025 ruling by Jacqueline Corrigan-Curay, the departing director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), who upheld the Office of Generic Drugs’ earlier decision to approve the generic versions.

Vanda originally filed citizen petitions in 2023 contesting the approvals, arguing there were significant flaws in the studies and data presented by the generic manufacturers. The company claims the FDA accepted bioequivalence studies that included only Indian male subjects for establishing use in the general U.S. population.

The company also expressed concerns about data inconsistencies in measuring drug exposure levels, noting that one generic version showed exposure levels more than double those Vanda has obtained for Hetlioz.

According to Vanda, FDA officials have indicated it could take two months for the Office of the Commissioner to decide whether to review the merits of this decision.

Hetlioz is a prescription medication developed by Vanda Pharmaceuticals. The company’s challenge comes amid its concerns about what it describes as "the FDA’s unacceptable culture of bias toward approving generic drugs regardless of whether they meet the requisite legal and evidentiary standards."

https://www.investing.com/news/company-news/vanda-seeks-fda-commissioner-review-of-hetlioz-generic-approvals-93CH-4205655

Wall Street group CFA running away from its embrace of DEI: ‘Damage has already been done’

 by Charles Gasparino

The CFA Institute has begun to downplay its controversial DEI initiatives – a major retreat from the once-popular but now dubiously legal hiring framework, On The Money has learned.

“Under CEO Margaret Franklin, the CFA Institute has tax-exempt dollars building what is now the largest DEI coalition in the world by assets under management,” said one CFA member who asked not to be named. “Now it appears they are rewriting the rules, but the damage has already been done.”

Obtaining a CFA charter is among the more prestigious private label designations for wealth managers. The institute bills itself as the “gold standard in ethics and transparency in finance.”

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Jack Forbes / NY Post Design

It boasts 200,000 professionals working at some of the world’s largest financial companies, managing trillions of dollars of global wealth, so its reach into the financial system is deep.

Critics of Franklin say while she focused on issues like DEI, she has neglected more glaring problems at the institute. They point to criticism by some members that she has centralized control over policymaking, giving members less input (a CFA rep denies the centralization charge).

They also point to the recent indictment of the institute’s former chief marketing officer who was charged with embezzlement of the outfit’s funds — around $5 million to pay for club memberships, travel expenses and an engagement ring, according to Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.

The nonprofit – whose grueling test has for decades been a rite of passage for Wall Street’s “chartered financial analysts” – has quietly removed a link on its website to the signatories to its DEI code of conduct, sources said.

The apparent reversal comes after CFA Institute CEO Margaret Franklin pushed through sweeping DEI initiatives in 2023, according to CFA members who spoke to On the Money.

The former executive has denied the charges.

Courts have recently issued rulings casting significant doubt on DEI’s legality. The Trump administration has taken steps to prevent companies from employing so-called intersectional metrics in hiring decisions.

In response, many large companies such as Paramount, Walmart, Lowe’s, Harley-Davidson, John Deere, McDonald’s, Amazon, Target, and financial institutions like Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Citigroup have begun to rewrite or totally unwind their DEI policies under threat of legal action.

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Target is among the the companies that have begun to rewrite or totally unwind their DEI policies under threat of legal action.Christopher Sadowski

“Given recent court decisions and executive orders, CFA Institute is reviewing its content and policies to ensure it meets the new requirements. That is why some of the content is not on our website,” CFA Institute spokesperson Matthew Hickerson told On The Money.

Hickerson said the Institute was not under pressure from the signatories to remove their names amid the legal dispute over DEI, but the organization informed of the move.

The CFA’s strict DEI code appears to have been launched just months before the Supreme Court outlawed using race as a factor in college admissions, casting legal doubt on equity hiring decisions. By signing on to the code of conduct, companies ensured that they would use DEI in job-related decisions including the promotion of wealth managers who manage money for small investors based on their race or sex.

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The Supreme Court has outlawed using race as a factor in college admissions, casting legal doubt on equity hiring decisions.REUTERS

“The DEI Code also requires signatories to amplify the impact of their commitment by making the economic, business, and moral case for diversity, equity, and inclusion,” the institute stated in a June 2023 press release announcing the effort.

The institute also provided its interpretation of “equity,” the key metric in DEI that critics say allow for discrimination.

“Equity is distinct from equality… Note that essentially the same support for everyone regardless of the starting point is equality, but that may not provide an equitable solution. Equity offers those who need it targeted support to reach their full potential,” the DEI code states.

Even though the code was voluntary, the CFA institute asked the that the companies that signed on have the organization review their compliance, a massive undertaking given the numbers and sizes of the companies involved.  

CFA touted in its June 2023 release that more than 100 finance industry organizations across the United States and Canada have signed up for what it called “the industry’s first voluntary Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Code for the Investment Profession in the United States and Canada.” 

They included the likes of CalPERS, the massive California public employee pension fund, Morgan Stanley Asset Management, Oaktree Capital, Nuveen and MFS Investment management.

“Signatory organizations together represent around $11.2 trillion in assets under management — approximately 10 percent of the investment industry’s assets under management globally* — as well as some $9.5 trillion assets under advisement.” the CFA said.

https://nypost.com/2025/08/21/business/wall-street-group-cfa-running-away-from-its-embrace-of-dei/

North Korea’s top officers abruptly pulled out of Russia

 More than a dozen of North Korea’s top military officers are returning home from Russia, suggesting Pyongyang’s contribution to the war in Ukraine could take a back seat during the ongoing peace talks, according to a new report.

The North Korean commanders, including Col. Gen. Kim Yong Bok and Maj. Gen. Sin Kum Chol, appeared suddenly in a welcome-home ceremony with leader Kim Jong Un praising their accomplishments in taking back Russia’s Kursk region, according to reports from Pyongyang on Thursday.

The generals’ return is likely a signal that Russia is confident it can keep Kursk and fend off any Ukrainian counterattack, all while avoiding questions about Pyongyang’s involvement in the war, Michael Madden, a North Korea expert at the Stimson Center think tank, told the Wall Street Journal.

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Kim Jong Un greeted his top generals returning from Russia with hugs, touting their work in helping Moscow secure the Kursk region.via REUTERS

“The North Koreans shouldn’t be a bone of contention at the negotiating table as they are operating on Russian territory,” Madden noted.

North Korea had deployed around 12,000 troops to Russia to help Moscow retake the Kursk region, where Ukraine had mounted a successful counter-invasion last summer.

The Pyongyang fighters have remained solely on Russian soil, allowing the deployment of the foreign fighters to be framed as part of the two nations’ mutual-defense pact.

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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un have defended Pyongyang’s deployment on the front lines.via REUTERS

Both Russia and North Korea had remained silent about the presence of Pyongyang troops in Russia for months until footage aired this spring of Kim and his entourage holding a tribute for all the soldiers slain in the war.

During the welcome-home ceremony, Kim was seen happily greeting his returning generals and giving them hugs as he touted their victory.

“Ours is a heroic army,” Kim said, according to KCNA state media.

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Kim touted his generals as “heroic” during the welcoming ceremony reported on Thursday.AP

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Moscow and Pyongyang’s alliance was strengthened last year as the nations signed a mutual-defense pact.POOL/AFP via Getty Images

“Our army is now doing what it ought to do and what needs to be done. It will do so in the future, too,” he added.

Along with providing Moscow with manpower for its meatgrinder in Kursk, North Korea has supplied Russia with artillery and munitions for the war.

Pyongyang has also vowed to ship off an additional 6,000 workers to assist Russia in its war reconstruction efforts.

https://nypost.com/2025/08/21/world-news/north-koreas-top-officers-abruptly-pulled-out-of-russia-and-sent-home-report/